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Economic reform focus of Ukraine forum

Business leaders, government officials, economists and experts in education from around the world met in the Ukraine during the Kyiv International Economic Forum 2014 on Thursday.

Hosted by the U.S.-Ukraine Business Council, the forum's focus was on reforming the Ukraine's economic policy. It included discussion on options to spur economic growth and the creation of a team of professionals and officials with the unified goal of enhancing the country's reformation strategy.

Among the scheduled speakers were Dmitry Shymkiv, the head of the presidential administration of Ukraine; Serhiy Kvit, the minister of education and science; Oleskandr Shlapak, minister of finance; Grzegorz W. Kolodko, the deputy prime minister and minister of finance for Poland; Juhan Parts, the former prime minister of Estonia; Erik S. Reinert, a professor at Tallinn University of Technology in Estonia; and Chuah Teong Ban, the ambassador of Malaysia to the Ukraine.